Risk Expert, Traded Market Risk

Job ID: 4489

Are you a highly motivated and experienced market risk expert with an analytical and collaborative mindset? If so this might an opportunity for you as we are looking for Market Risk Expert to join the Traded Market Risk team within Nordea’s Group Financial Risk.

About our team

Meet the Group Financial Risk team. Capital rules are changing with FRTB and this is an opportunity to further develop your professional risk management skills and ensure readiness and compliance from a market risk perspective.

Our team focuses on different asset classes across the trading book. As a subject matter expert you will have the opportunity to work closely with stakeholders across the bank including other risk areas, front office, and risk modelling. 

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.  

What you’ll be doing

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Provide support as well as challenge to the business on current and emerging market risks on an ongoing basis;
• Perform comprehensive risk management analysis and deep dives to support decision making;
• Support oversight activities to continuously improve and ensure a strong risk culture and risk management framework;
• Contribute to risk assessment across ongoing projects and activities;
• Assess new business initiatives.

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you:

• Are familiar with core market risk principles and have a good understanding of financial instruments and their inherent risks, ideally from fixed income perspective;
• Have a good understanding of financial regulation;
• Are diligent and have an analytical mindset that allows you to see the big picture as well as pay attention to relevant details;
• Have the ability to communicate and document complex problems in a clear and concise manner;
• Identify risks and challenges, but have a proactive, pragmatic, and solution oriented approach and the ability to independently drive things forward;
• Are a strong team player and enjoy a diverse and international working environment;
• Have high integrity.

Your background and skills include:

• Hold a degree in finance, economics or equivalent;
• Minimum of two years of experience in banking, financial markets or similar;
• Have excellent oral and written communication skills in English;
• Have strong communication and stakeholder management skills;
• Experience with supervisory interaction would be beneficial.

What we offer

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 19/10/2026.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Only for candidates in Finland: A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.